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What was the original purpose of the Social Security Act? - Answer To provide a supplemental
retirement income for working people and their dependents. Also, to provide Old Age
Assistance OAA, a form of public assistance to the needy who were age 65 or older and lived in
the community.
What year was the term "Nursing Home" coined? - Answer 1936
What was the primary stimulus for the development of the Nursing Home Industry - Answer
Social Security Act
The 1950 amendment to the Social Security Act gave what to the Nursing Home industry? -
Answer Momentum
The 1950 amendments to the SSA required states to establish a ______ or ________ for Nursing
Homes. This gave official status nationwide to Nursing Homes or facilities providing long tem
care. - Answer Standard Setting or Licensing Agency
The 1960 Kerr-Mills Act expanded their program by providing funds for what purpose? - Answer
By providing funds for medical care of the aged.
The 1960 Kerr-Mills Act program required a ________ to ensure that funds went only to the
health care of the needy. - Answer means test
In 1965 the SSA was amended to establish ________ and _________; which is considered the
biggest breakthrough for SSA. - Answer Medicare and Medicaid
In 1965, the Medicare and Medicaid programs were assigned to the _________. - Answer
Health Care Finance Administration department of the U.S. Department or Health and Human
Services.
In 2001, Health Care Finance Administration was renamed _______. - Answer The Centers of
Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
, How is Medicare administered? - Answer By CMS, with assistance from the states.
CMS determines eligibility, handles the funds, and certifies facilities and individuals who serve
as ______. - Answer providers of service
The state surveys ______ facilities to determine compliance with federal/state standards. -
Answer Medicare
_______ is a program that provides health care to the medically indigent. - Answer Medicaid
______ involves a "means" test to determine that ______ services only go to the qualified
needy population. - Answer Medicaid
_______ is primarily operated by the state which handles the funds, licenses, and certifies
facilities for compliance with federal/state standards. - Answer Medicaid
All standard of ____ are first approved by __. - Answer Medicaid; CMS
What were the last two major stimuli for nursing home industry development? - Answer
Medicare; Medicaid
________ identified a nursing facility which met state licensing standard to provide, on a regular
basis, ealth related care and services to individuals who do not require hospital or SNF care, but
whose mental or physical condition requires services above the level of room and board and
that can be provided only by an institution. - Answer Intermediate Care Facility (ICF)
Effective Oct. 1 of 1990, OBRA changed the name of the ICF to _________. - Answer Nursing
Facility (NF)
The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 (OBRA) is also referred to as _________. -
Answer the Nursing Home Reform Act
_________ is a nursing home that provides 24 hr/day skilled nursing services which cannot be
provided in a facility other than a hospital. - Answer Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF)